The Barry Farm’s pig feeder with plan

Here it is! The plans that we followed are here. We did a few modifications to use recycled materials which dictated our size. You may notice that ours only has 3 spots instead of 4 for pigs. The plans came from a collection from the university of north dakota. Here is a link to their collection of Swine plans, maybe you will see something else you like

8 thoughts on “The Barry Farm’s pig feeder with plan”

Thanks! I actually found some plans to make a gravity feeder from a 55g barrel, and after I made it, we all decided to just stick with feeding twice a day, go figure. (We raise pigs for ourselves, family, and friends, so everyone gets some input on how its done!)

I followed these plans, but made the feeder half as long, for 2 pigs. With some planning the 2 pig feeder can be made from a single sheet of plywood. We raised 2 pigs in Montana with it and it worked great. The one i made held approx. 150lbs of feed. Exellent plans!

Glad we could help. These plans should only be a jumping off point and meant to remind us all that we can take a good idea and with a little effort make something useful ourselves that meets our farms need

Thanks for the post. Im working on designing a hog feeder for our pigs and had a couple questions about the one you made. What are the dimensions of the hopper that holds the grain? and about how many pounds of grain can it hold?
Thanks again!

Thanks for the plans. This is my first year raising pigs and needed to find plans for a gravity feeder. If you have any helpful hints please send them my way. And again this is an awesome site, you’re the best.
Mike in Rhode Island

Well thanks for the complement and hope your pigs do well. The only hint I would give is to install pig proof dividers in the feeder to keep the pigs from tossing their heads side to side and wasting feed.

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